Welcome to ldap3’s documentation

ldap3 is a pure Python LDAP 3 client library strictly conforming to RFC4510 and is released under the LGPL v3 open source license. RFC4510 is the current LDAP specification (June 2006) from IETF and obsoletes the previous LDAP RFCs 2251, 2830, 3771 (December 1997).

ldap3 can be used with any Python version starting from 2.6, including all Python 3 versions. It also works with PyPy and PyPy3.

Note

ldap3 versioning follows SemVer.

Warning

Thread safe strategies

In multithreaded programs you must use one of SAFE_SYNC (synchronous connection strategy), SAFE_RESTARTABLE (restartable syncronous connection strategy) or ASYNC (asynchronous connection strategy). Each LDAP operation with SAFE_SYNC or SAFE_RESTARTABLE strategies returns a tuple of four elements: status, result, response and request.

  • status: states if the operation was successful

  • result: the LDAP result of the operation

  • response: the response of a LDAP Search Operation

  • request: the original request of the operation

The SafeSync strategy can be used with the Abstract Layer, but the Abstract Layer currently is NOT thread safe. For example, to use SAFE_SYNC:

from ldap3 import Server, Connection, SAFE_SYNC
server = Server('my_server')
conn = Connection(server, 'my_user', 'my_password', client_strategy=SAFE_SYNC, auto_bind=True)
status, result, response, _ = conn.search('o=test', '(objectclass=*)')  # usually you don't need the original request (4th element of the returned tuple)

With ASYNC you must request the response with the get_response() method.

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